Old Photograph Eaglesham Scotland

Old photograph of houses, Pub, church and people in Eaglesham, East Renfrewshire, Scotland. This Scottish village takes its name from the French word eglise, or church, earning this as a result of its apparent abundance of places of worship in the past.



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Old Photograph Drummond Street Comrie Scotland

Old photograph of shops and houses on Drummond Street, Comrie, Perthshire, Scotland. Comrie's early prosperity derived from weaving. This was mostly done as piecework in people's own cottages. Comrie was also important as a droving town. Cattle destined for the markets of the Scottish Lowlands and ultimately England would be driven south from their grazing areas in the Highlands. River crossings, such as at Comrie, were important staging posts on the way south. Much of the land around Comrie was owned by the Drummond family, Earls of Perth, latterly Earls of Ancaster, whose main seat was Drummond Castle, south of Crieff.




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Old Photograph West End Kinnesswood Scotland

Old photograph of cottages, houses and people at the West End of Kinnesswood, Perthshire, Scotland. This was the birthplace in 1746 of the poet Michael Bruce who was born into a weaver's family and is remembered for his nature poetry in poems such as Ode To The Cuckoo which Edmund Burke described as " the most beautiful lyric in our language ". Bruce died from consumption at the early age of 21. In 1829 meteorologist Alexander Buchan was born here.





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Old Photograph Strathaven Scotland

Old photograph of Strathaven, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The town was granted a Royal Charter in 1450, making the Town of Strathaven a Burgh of Barony. The town's main industry was weaving in the 19th and early 20th centuries, however this declined when faced by competition from Glasgow. The industrial revolution bypassed the town as it had little to offer in the way of natural resources.



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Old Photograph Meigle Scotland

Old photograph of cottages and houses in Meigle, Perthshire, Scotland. Meigle was once home to a parish church, the Episcopalian church of St Margaret’s and a United Free church. This was quite unusual at the time, especially for such a small town. Over time the United Free church was abandoned and the St Margaret’s church was demolished leaving the town with only one church, the Parish Church, which continues to serve the community today despite being ravaged by a fire in the 1860s.



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